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I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
Tom Robbins
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Tom Robbins
Age: 92
Born: 1932
Born: July 22
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Thomas Eugene Robbins
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Eating a raw oyster is like french kissing a mermaid.
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And it rained a screaming. And it rained a rawness. And it rained a plasma. And it rained a disorder.
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My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.
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A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly a fart, slower yet. But a kiss thrown by fingers- its departure is sudden, its arrival ambiguous, and there is no source that can state with authority what speeds are reached in its flight.
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Most novelists write about twisted lives.
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Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.
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You knows dat in New Orleans is not morning 'til dee sun come up.
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If you lack the iron and the fizz to take control of your own life, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you find yourself docked.
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The new wrinkle is that escalating advances in technology are nourishing the narcissistic ego the way chicken manure nourishes a rose bush, while exploding worldwide population is allowing its effects to multiply geometrically.
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I don't want to give the impression that I hold daily conversations with my household appliances, although my toaster is as old as Drew Barrymore and almost as talented.
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Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.
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I don't have a very high opinion, actually, of the world of criticism - or the practice of criticism. I think I admire art criticism, criticism of painting and sculpture, far more than I do that of say films and books, literary or film criticism. But I don't much like the practice. I think there are an awful lot of bad people in it.
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When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come.
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That's the way the mind works: the brain is genetically disposed towards organization, yet if not controlled, will link even the most imagerial fragment to another on the flimsiest pretense and in the most freewheeling manner, as if it takes a kind of organic pleasure in creative association, without regards to logic or chronological sequence.
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If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
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Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver.
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You're better equipped for this world than I am, she said. I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.
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The full moon - the mandala of the sky.
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When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
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The most important thing in life is style. That is, the style of ones existence-the characteristic mode of ones actions-is basically, ultimately what matters. For if man defines himself by doing, then style is doubly definitive, because style describes the doing.
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